This may be normal. In your 690, you've no doubt noticed that you have two sets of "SATA" connectors - one group that's marked HDD and one group that's marked SATA.
The HDD group are connected to the LSI combination SAS/SATA controller on the motherboard (it's the chip with the metal circle on top, for whatever that's worth) - you should be plugging your hard drives into these connectors. The SATA group are connected to the Intel ESB2 south-bridge chip (it's hidden under a wide, flat silver metal heat sink). You should connect your CD, DVD, etc drives to these three connectors.
If you've done that, then you'll get the message you describe as a side effect. The Intel ESB2 software loads, looks for hard drives, but finds none (only CD drives and the like). Failing to find a hard drive - which is OK - it then posts that message to tell you that it didn't bother to install the ACHI "driver" portion of the BIOS.
Poorly worded, I think; in fact that message is completely unnecessary. But if I'm on the right track it's nothing to worry about.
You can test for this by temporarily plugging a hard drive into one of the three SATA ports. If the message goes away, we've found the culprit.
Funny, I was messing around with the SAS utility this afternoon and right before I left the house I discovered this on my own when I plugged in one of my drives to SATA _ 2 and got the message "AHCI Bios Installed" while booting. I think this should solve my problem. Thanks for the help
CueBoy
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February 21st, 2008 00:00
This may be normal. In your 690, you've no doubt noticed that you have two sets of "SATA" connectors - one group that's marked HDD and one group that's marked SATA.
The HDD group are connected to the LSI combination SAS/SATA controller on the motherboard (it's the chip with the metal circle on top, for whatever that's worth) - you should be plugging your hard drives into these connectors. The SATA group are connected to the Intel ESB2 south-bridge chip (it's hidden under a wide, flat silver metal heat sink). You should connect your CD, DVD, etc drives to these three connectors.
If you've done that, then you'll get the message you describe as a side effect. The Intel ESB2 software loads, looks for hard drives, but finds none (only CD drives and the like). Failing to find a hard drive - which is OK - it then posts that message to tell you that it didn't bother to install the ACHI "driver" portion of the BIOS.
Poorly worded, I think; in fact that message is completely unnecessary. But if I'm on the right track it's nothing to worry about.
You can test for this by temporarily plugging a hard drive into one of the three SATA ports. If the message goes away, we've found the culprit.
bitz-dv
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February 21st, 2008 01:00